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Western Pennsylvania English, known more narrowly as Pittsburgh English or popularly by outsiders as Pittsburghese, is a dialect of American English native primarily to the western half of Pennsylvania, centered on the city of Pittsburgh, but potentially appearing as far north as Erie County, as far east as metropolitan State College, as far west as metropolitan Youngstown (Ohio), and as far south as micropolitan Clarksburg (West Virginia).

Speakers with the strongest accent of this dialect, associated with the white working class of Pittsburgh, have been historically called Yinzers.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division.

The Pirates play their home games at PNC Park; the team previously played at Forbes Field and Three Rivers Stadium, the latter of which was named after its location near the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers.

Founded on October 15, 1881 as Allegheny, the franchise has won five World Series championships.

The Pirates are also often referred to as the "Bucs" or the "Buccos" (derived from buccaneer, a synonym for pirate).

The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL).

The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original expansion from six to twelve teams.

The Penguins played in the Civic Arena, also known to Pittsburgh fans as "The Igloo", from the time of their inception through the end of the 2009–10 season.

They moved into their new arena, PPG Paints Arena, to begin the 2010–11 NHL season.

They have qualified for five Stanley Cup Finals, winning the Stanley Cup four times – in 1991, 1992, 2009, and 2016.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) North division.

Founded in, the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib," was the second largest daily printed newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States until it transitioned to an all digital format on December 1, 2016.

Founded on August 22, 1811 as the Greensburg Gazette and in 1889 consolidated with several papers into the Greensburg Tribune-Review, the paper circulated only in the eastern suburban counties of Westmoreland and parts of Indiana and Fayette until May 1992, when it began serving all of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area after a strike at the two Pittsburgh dailies, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Press, deprived the city of a newspaper for several months.